Of course

Of course, you end up becoming yourself, even when you’re a journalist.

- Rebecca Mead, in The New Yorker

Favourite footnotes: 8

(A good dictionary and usage dictionary are strongly recommended. You're insane if you don't own these already.)

- David Foster Wallace, teaching materials (English 183D, Pomona College, 2008), in The David Foster Wallace Reader

Facebooks - VI

Collected Poems - Roger McGough
The Three Musketeers (and several of the sequels) - Alexandre Dumas        [in English, for the record]
The Complete MAUS - Art Spiegelman
Consider The Lobster: and other essays - David Foster Wallace
The Unquiet Grave - 'Palinurus' (Cyril Connolly)
Complete Works - Oscar Wilde [the poetry is mostly terrible, but I                didn't know that then]
Whale (or any other) Adventure - Willard Price
Translations - Brian Friel
Regeneration / The Eye in the Door / The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
'Books v. cigarettes' - George Orwell

Why hyphens are important

as proven, here, admittedly, by omission:

Two star novelists, Nathan Englander and Zadie Smith, on bringing back wrong and right, micro and macro writing, and David Foster Wallace

- Guernica

Though how they think they're going to bring back David Foster Wallace...

Non/Fiction

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.

- David Foster Wallace

Emphases at reader's discretion.

Real living

It is unimaginably hard to... stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

- David Foster Wallace, commencement speech, Kenyon College, 2005